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As a brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo lived her final days in 2005, her family’s bitter feuding imparted a tragic lesson about the importance of specifying one’s wishes for end-of-life medical therapy. Yet, beyond headline-grabbing cases such as Schiavo’s, what truly motivates people to plan for medical care at life’s end” With record numbers of Americans - the Baby Boom generation - now reaching age 60, we still know surprisingly little about these decisions or the factors that shape them, says University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Deborah Carr……..

Original post by Health news from medicineworld.org

As a brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo lived her final days in 2005, her family’s bitter feuding imparted a tragic lesson about the importance of specifying one’s wishes for end-of-life medical therapy. Yet, beyond headline-grabbing cases such as Schiavo’s, what truly motivates people to plan for medical care at life’s end” With record numbers of Americans - the Baby Boom generation - now reaching age 60, we still know surprisingly little about these decisions or the factors that shape them, says University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Deborah Carr……..

Original post by Health news from medicineworld.org